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短文填空

根据短文内容，选择适当的单词或短语填空，使短文意思完整。每个选项至多使用一次，有两项剩余。请将答案写在短文下面的横线上。

swimming, cleverest , was born , called , gave , girls , something , reading , take, anything

Many years ago, there was a family 1. Franklin. They lived in Boston. There were five 2. and six boys in the family. On a January day in 1760, another baby boy 3. . The boy’s mother and his father 4. the boy a name — Benjamin.

Benjamin was the 5. of all the children. He could read when he was five and he could write by the time he was seven. When he was eight, he was sent to school.

In school Benjamin was good at 6. and writing but not good at math. He read all of his father’s books. And whenever （每当）he had a little money, he bought a book with it . He liked books. They told him how to do 7. . At that time he invented the paddles （脚蹼）for 8. .

Answer 1